01-28-2009, 06:23 AM
Bob -
Some may say it's an "urban legend" that people have been sent one way tickets.
Other municipalities may tell you there shipping homeless people back to their families in Hawaii.
But having lived on Oahu next to the Ala Wai park and feeding homeless people on several occassions... I believe this story.
I will give for example the gentlemen named "Ron" from Chicago. What he told me, is that employees at a business chipped in to give him a one-way ticket to Hawaii.
Ron said it was his choice to live in the streets in Chicago (by this business) or come and live in Hawaii where the temperatures didn't get to a freezing point in the winter.
It's very easy to live in Hawaii homeless.
There have been studies that I can't find this moment about Veterans that specifically choose to come to Hawaii because of the Veteran services here... although they still remain homeless.
I consider myself more of an "Advocate" for the homeless, because I've been very close to being homeless before. More people then society wants to believe are just a paycheck away from being homeless.
However, as others have said on this board before about the economy and the way things are shaping up in society.... they would rather live in these economic conditions here in Hawaii then anywhere else.
Does anyone think that philosophy wouldn't hold true for a homeless person? I know if I was homeless on the mainland and offered a one-way ticket to Hawaii... I'd be jumping all over it.
Damon Tucker's Weblog
Some may say it's an "urban legend" that people have been sent one way tickets.
Other municipalities may tell you there shipping homeless people back to their families in Hawaii.
But having lived on Oahu next to the Ala Wai park and feeding homeless people on several occassions... I believe this story.
I will give for example the gentlemen named "Ron" from Chicago. What he told me, is that employees at a business chipped in to give him a one-way ticket to Hawaii.
Ron said it was his choice to live in the streets in Chicago (by this business) or come and live in Hawaii where the temperatures didn't get to a freezing point in the winter.
It's very easy to live in Hawaii homeless.
There have been studies that I can't find this moment about Veterans that specifically choose to come to Hawaii because of the Veteran services here... although they still remain homeless.
I consider myself more of an "Advocate" for the homeless, because I've been very close to being homeless before. More people then society wants to believe are just a paycheck away from being homeless.
However, as others have said on this board before about the economy and the way things are shaping up in society.... they would rather live in these economic conditions here in Hawaii then anywhere else.
Does anyone think that philosophy wouldn't hold true for a homeless person? I know if I was homeless on the mainland and offered a one-way ticket to Hawaii... I'd be jumping all over it.
Damon Tucker's Weblog